Footnotes: Death-Dealing Swag, Now in Convenient GIF Format

The GIF finally gets named word of the year by the Oxford English Dictionary, and Footnotes is there to congratulate it with a retrospective and a tribute, and to remind it that the word “footnotes” has been in the dictionary for far longer. NBD.

Then we head to simpler times, when disputes were settled not with messy court cases, but with swords through vital organs. It’s the swashbucklers, the original kings of swag. They too would remind the GIF that they’ve been in the OED for a long time. And that they have a ton of movies based on them.

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